WEBVTT - Practical Golf 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.520 It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.800 Claude Harmon for everyone listening in the United States. Hope 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:11.760 everyone had a good Thanksgiving break. I saw some stuff 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.880 on social media this week on X Twitter, I just I. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.360 Can't get used to calling it X. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.240 One of the sites I follow Practical Golf John Sherman, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.919 who stuff I really really like. He posted some stuff 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.560 that really really kind of resonated with me about how 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.560 to play, something that I'm always talking about on the pod. Yes, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.320 I mean technique hugely important helps to have better golf swing, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.279 but as I keep saying, everybody's trying to make their 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.239 golf swing better. And I just wanted to kind of 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.479 go through some of these things because it is a 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.640 lot of really good information and knowledge that I think 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.040 can help you, and I wanted to kind of expand 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.360 on it. So one of the first things, a typical 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.800 PJ Tour player lands the ball twenty feet from the 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.080 pin from one hundred to hundred and twenty five yards 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.680 in the fairway, And I think that's really important to 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.160 realize because they are so influenced when we watch golf 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.440 on television, right, I think that is something that you 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.800 know I've been involved in golf pretty much my entire life. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.440 But when I look at the average golfer and I 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.680 look at the way the average golfer thinks about their 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.520 own game and plays, I think they're very skewed by television, right. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.360 I think they're very skewed by television massively. From a 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.760 distance standpoint, right, how far you feel like you hit 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.679 the ball with your clubs? How far you hit a 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.800 nine iron, how far you hit a seven iron, how 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.880 far you hit a five iron? And I think it's 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.800 easy to get caught into that trap because we watch 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.120 so much golf on television. You've got the you know, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.679 the guys in the booth. You know, you've got Jim 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.640 Manton Trevor and they throw it down to cult nose 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.240 and they say. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:37.839 Cult, what's he got? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.759 And you know, he's got one hundred and seventy five 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.280 yards and he's going to hit this club. You hear 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.480 that enough times, right, and you hear that over and 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.520 over and over again, because a lot of the distances 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.760 on the PGA Tour iron wise, are the same. Yeah, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.520 there are some longer hitters and some guys that can 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.960 really really vomit. But I think once you get to 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.000 the Elite Tour level. Distance wise, there are a lot 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.240 of players that you're going to be watching on television 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.280 that hit a seven iron the same disc, that's a 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.280 hit a five iron the same distance, right, And I 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.920 think you hear these numbers, they are arbitrary numbers for 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.240 your game because they're somebody else. It's Roy McElroy, you 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.640 know from that distance. It's not us, right, it's not 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.079 us mere mortals. And then you have this thing that 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.280 I think one of the great things about tech, and 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.440 one of the great things about the data age that 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.919 we're in is now we can kind of look at 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.120 data and quantify, you know, what is a good shot 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.919 and what is a bad shot. And I think most 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.040 golfers are very skewed in what they think a good 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.480 shot is. So if the best players in the world 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.560 in the men's game are averaging twenty feet from inside 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.280 of one hundred to one hundred and twenty five yards, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.760 I do think it it can somewhat change what you 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.120 think is a good shot. So if the best players 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.760 in the world from one hundred yards to one hundred 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.320 and twenty five are averages around twenty feet, if you 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:54.160 are a higher handicapped player hit the green. Hitting the 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.600 green is a good shot. Right from one hundred yards 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.480 it is a good shot. Let yourself off the hook. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.600 Don't beat yourself up if you're one hundred yards out. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.880 If you're one hundred and twenty five yards out and 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.240 you hit it to forty feet, maybe given your skill set, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.480 maybe given what you can and can't do, and maybe 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.200 the control that you have over your golf swing and 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.760 control that you have over your golf ball, maybe from 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.320 those distances one hundred to one twenty five, just basically 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.520 hitting the target, hitting the green, having the ball finished 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.680 anywhere on that green, maybe that's a good shot for you, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.080 and maybe it's a good shot for a lot of 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.200 golfers as well. So I think golfers in general, and 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.560 I think the higher the handicap, the harder on themselves 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.600 they are, right, The higher the handicap, the higher the expectation, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.000 the greater the expectation, and I think there are times 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.520 where if you're more realistic about your skill set, more 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.680 realistic about what you can and can't do, it's going 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.960 to make the playing of the game easier because I 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.800 just don't think you're gonna put so much pressure on 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.480 yourself if you're struggling to break one hundred for the 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.160 first time, if you're struggling to break ninety for the 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.840 first time, if you're struggling to break eighty for the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.560 first time. Hitting greens anywhere on the greens is a 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.640 good shot. Giving yourself a chance to putt for a birdie, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.400 giving yourself a chance to put for a birdie anywhere 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:25.240 on the green. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:26.159 Is a good shot. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.760 Given how difficult hitting greens is, even from the middle 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.480 of the fairway right dead flat lie no end one 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.640 hundred and twenty five yards out, the amount of players 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.320 that consistently hit the green from that distance is much 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.160 smaller than you think. The amount of players that not 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.840 g it close. And we hear that all the time. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.360 Player you know, he's got one hundred yards in his hands, 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.520 one hundred and ten yards in his hands, hits it's 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.920 about ten feet. What did the announcers say, Eh, he's 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.360 not gonna be happy with that. Yeah, he's probably not. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.120 But the statistics and the data show you that that's 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.679 a pretty good shot and is a really good shot 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.599 four or the best players in the world, So lowering 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.599 your expectations, but also on the golf course. Managing your 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.159 expectations right. You don't have to hit it to ten 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.600 feet to improve your handicap. You don't have to hit 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.160 it to five feet to break one hundreds for the 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.000 first time. What you need to do is hit more 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.400 greens right, hit more greens anywhere on the green. That 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.839 is a win. So when you're standing in the fairway, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.560 if you can get the golf ball anywhere on the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.040 green as a massive, massive win. And then another stat 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.320 that I saw, tour players average bogie eighty percent of 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:43.440 the time from a recovery situation, most likely in the trees. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.960 They're out of position, they make bogie. They average bogie 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:47.880 eighty percent. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.039 Of the time. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.119 Something I talk about on the pod all the time. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.920 One of the ways that you are going to lower 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.880 your handicap is to make more bogies and eliminate the 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.800 big numbers. So if eighty percent of tour players are 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.200 averaging bogie from the trees, that means that they're probably 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.120 playing way more conservative than you are. They're probably way 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.440 less risk averse. Like most average golfers that are just 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.840 trying to break one hundred ninety eighty, they're so hyper 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.520 hyper aggressive when they get out of trouble or when 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.960 they get into trouble, so as a result, they don't 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.120 get out of trouble, and they compound a situation that 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.400 maybe didn't need to just go so horribly wrong. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:34.080 Right, So. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.320 I say this on the pod all the time. I 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.799 will keep saying this on the pod all the time. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.799 Get out of trouble in one shot, right, Just find 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.960 a way to get out of trouble in one shot 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.200 so that your next shot can be a risk somewhat 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.760 free shot from the fairway from somewhat of a flatish lie. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:57.400 But it's not going to be. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.680 So you're trying to hit a recovery shot and you 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.240 try and hit the hero shot, you don't pull it off. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.560 Now you have to hit what another recovery shot, right, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.240 And if you didn't make a good decision on the 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.560 first one, you're probably not going to make a good 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.760 decision on And I laughed because I was teaching. I 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.680 teach a kid really good junior legit chance to play 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.760 Division one college golf finish top ten in the state 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.000 championship this year as a sophomore, I think it was 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.520 a freshman last year, finished third, right, but he made 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.600 two double bogies in the high school state championships individual 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.679 two doubles and finished I think top ten, like seventh 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:37.120 or eighth. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.960 Right, the two doubles, turn those into bogies. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.880 That's two shots better. Turned the two doubles into just pars. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.559 I mean, he probably would have finished second or third. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.640 And when I talked to him over text about it, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.640 I was looking at a scorecard. We were going back 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.920 and forth after the first and for the two double 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.520 bogies that he made, he said to me, it was 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.440 the wrong decision. I made the wrong decision. It wasn't talent, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.200 It wasn't hours spent on the range, it wasn't technique, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.360 wasn't laying the shaft down, it wasn't shallowing it out. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.040 It wasn't getting to. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.520 Handle more forward and impact, all of the technical stuff 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.520 that everybody's trying to work on in their golf swings. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.800 Here's a kid that's you know, he's a scratch golfer, right, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.120 it's probably a plus handicap. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.640 The kid's legit player. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.440 He's telling me, the two double bogies I made are 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.320 from bad decisions. Yeah, you hit a bad shot to 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.320 get himself into that position, right, But then what happened 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.920 was twice. He compounded that situation and made it even worse. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.959 He didn't take the easy way out, he didn't hit 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.160 it in the trees and say, Okay, eighty percent of 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.960 tour players average bogies when they get into trouble. Right, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.520 he just said, I'm all in. I'm gonna try and 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.240 be super aggressive, try and be a hero, try and 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:52.439 do something crazy. And for two holes it didn't work, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.720 and he made two double bogies, and it hurt him. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.720 It cost him an opportunity to win a state championship. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.040 He's good enough to win one, finished top five last year, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.640 and he's only gotten better this year. But decision making 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.480 on the golf course is hugely, hugely, hugely important. And 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.000 I just think, if if we can all when we 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.440 get into trouble, realize that the best players in the 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.280 world eighty percent of the time make bogie, not par 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.120 by the way bogie. So get into trouble, off the tee, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.400 get out of position wherever the mindset has to go. Okay, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.280 the worst I make here is bogie. Right, the worst 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.439 I make here is bogie. And where is the easiest 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:36.959 way for. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.040 Me to get out of jail? Here? 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.320 Where's the path of least resistance? Where can I hit 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.040 a shot to where my next one I'm gonna have 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.600 a clear, unobstructed view of the green from somewhat of 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.960 a flatish fairway, lie and take my medicine. I made 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.080 a bad swing, I got myself into the position, but 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.000 what I'm not going to do is compound it and 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.360 make it worse. So really really like that, That really 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:05.880 really reson with me. Another slide that John put up 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.360 that I really really liked. Typical tour player averages three 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.640 point five birdies per round, and most of them are 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.160 on the par fives, right, so scoring averages on tour 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.680 par three's average round three just a little over par. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.640 Same with the par four scorings over par, and par 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.719 five scoring is under par. So and these are just 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.240 some basic numbers, but a kind of one to five 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.720 handicap range is kind of going to be right around 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.920 that one and a half birdie's per round. And then 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.040 as the handicaps get higher, the amount of birdies per 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.040 round you're going to make becomes almost non existent. So 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.120 if handicap golfers that are kind of low single digits, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.560 they're not even averaging two birdies per round. So if 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.560 you're trying to break one hundred for the first time, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.320 if you're trying to break ninety or eighty for the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.040 first time, if you're trying to break seventy for the 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.840 first time, a realistic understanding as to how many birdies 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.840 per round you're going to make. And I've said this before, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:15.360 I'll keep saying this, Make more pars and bogies, make 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:22.680 more pars, make more bogies, not birdies, but also not 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.880 doubles and triples. So not making eagles, not making birdies, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.839 not making doubles, not making triples. So what does that leave. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.320 That leaves pars and bogies. And I think if the 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.600 focus can be on let me just throw a bunch 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.120 of pars at them today, right, let me just try 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.080 and make a bunch of pars. And I've talked about 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.280 this before. If you're a higher handicapped golfer, try and 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.640 bogie every hole, just trying bogie. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:45.760 Every single hole. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.520 If you're trying to break one hundred for the first time, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:49.840 play bogie golf. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.000 Try and bogue every hole. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.080 So the part three is you're trying to make fours 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.560 par fourst you're trying to make fives and the par 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:56.720 fives you're trying to make six. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.000 So if the par five's the goal is. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.439 To make a six, you need to hit driver off 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.400 the tee, maybe hit a hybrid, maybe hit hybrid again, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.079 and then maybe you hit a nine iron a seven iron, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.520 and you've got a putt legit putt for birdie. Right, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.760 So having a realistic understanding as to what your capabilities are. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.319 But also I think given. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.000 Handicap ranges and given the fact that the best players 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.800 in the world are making less than four birdies around 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.160 and most of them are on the par five, So 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.600 the par fives are the legit scoring chances. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:28.920 Right. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.880 It's hard to make berdies on par threes. Why well, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.800 you would think it would be easy because those are 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.480 the shortest holes, But that's where they're going to tuck 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.719 the pins, and that's where the majority of golfers are 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.439 just going to become hyper hyper hyper aggressive. So birdie 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.520 averages on tour, everybody's BERTI in the par five. You've 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.720 got three four In majors, sometimes you have two of those, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.520 but those are the legit chances. So when you're looking 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.160 at your scorecards, I'll keep saying this. If you're tired 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.680 of me saying this. If you think it's repetitive, good, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.959 it's my podcast. I'll keep saying it. Look at your 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.120 par three scoring, look at your par five scoring. Don't 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.880 be given tons of shots away on par fives, right, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.000 those are the legit chances you've got. I really liked 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.200 when I saw this post from Practical Golf on X 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.280 I just was like, Yeah, this is kind of the 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.320 world that I'm trying to live in with my players. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:19.079 To get them. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.120 I immediately screenshoted these sports slides and sent it to 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.679 the kid that double buggy two holes at the state championship. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.520 I was like, do you see now, do you understand 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.000 how important it is to play the game. So scratch golfers, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.560 single digit handicapped golfers don't make a ton of birdies. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.640 They just don't. Birdies are hard to make. So again, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.360 going back to the first thing we talked about, realistic expectations. Okay, yeah, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.800 if you Berty won of the par fives, that's bonus. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.079 But bertie one of the par fives and play the 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.720 other three in bogie, And I'm telling you add it 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.760 all up. Do that for a year, do that for 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.480 a summer, Do that for a period of time. But 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.199 just say, listen, I'm trying to break a hundred for 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.440 the first time. Try to make a bogie every hole. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.920 I promise you it's gonna work. It's going to help 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.280 you get better. And then obviously I've talked about this before, 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.959 but I think this is really really powerful as well. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.480 Eight feet on the PGA Tour is where the make 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.760 rate goes fifty to fifty eight feet. So if you're 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.440 not a PGA Tour player, you don't play on DP World, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.280 if you don't play on Live, you don't play in Asia, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.120 you don't play on the LPGA, you don't play on 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.760 the Champs. If you're not on one of those tours. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.880 Eight feet is where it's fifty to fifty. These are 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.280 stats from Mark Brody. Three feet tour players ninety six 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:45.480 percent scratch golfers, ninety three percent ninety shooter eighty four 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.520 percent five feet for tour players seventy seven percent scratch 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.480 golfers sixty six percent five feet according to the data 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.440 for I would say for the average, I'm gonna go 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.480 maybe fifteen in higher. I think five feet you're probably 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.320 at fifty to fifty from a make standpoint. Based off 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.840 of data, so if you miss one, don't beat yourself up. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.560 By the time we get to the PGA Tour fifty 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.600 to fifty, which is eight feet, the average ninety shooter 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.280 is at twenty seven percent. Ten feet PGA Tour players 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.760 are at forty percent. If you're shooting in the nineties, 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.680 you're at ten feet, you're at around twenty percent. And 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.200 so twenty feet on the PGA Tour make percentage just 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.640 fifteen percent. And I just see so many regular recreational 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.800 handicapped golfers. They're just too hard on themselves, and they 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:45.200 don't expect what the data says their game should produce. Right, 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.960 they think they're going to make every ten footter they 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.000 look at. They expect to make it from twenty feet. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:51.360 Right. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.680 The numbers just plummet the further you get away from 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.800 the hole. So realistic expectations. How do you get real 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.240 life stick expectations of your game? And I think that 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.320 takes some honesty. I think it takes putting a little 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.240 bit of your ego on the shelf. But the data 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.720 is all out there, right, I mean, if you want 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.280 to search these stats, these numbers, all this information, you 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.400 find it on the internet, right, you can search it, 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.480 and I think knowledge is power, right. But some of 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:28.240 the just basic things that we touched on today are legit, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.320 legit ways that you can lower your scores, that your 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:38.560 handicaps can get lower, that you can hit more fairways, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.440 hit more greens. I mean, one of the easiest ways 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.720 to hit more fairways is if you struggle to hit 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.680 fairways with your driver, maybe choose a different club. Right, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.920 the game of golf, there isn't other than the rules 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:58.360 of golf governing scoring. You know, penalties and the rules 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 of the game. The way you can play the game 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.199 is infinite, right. There are a million different variations on 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.119 how you can play a Part three. You can do 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.000 what tour players do. Hit it to twenty feet, make 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.520 the putt right, hit it to twenty feet, miss the putt, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.560 two putt, and get out with par Do that on 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.600 a par four, You do that on par five. But 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.240 how you go about doing that, what clubs you're hitting, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.919 what strategy you're using, and how you're employing that strategy 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.119 based off of your skill set, your handicap, what you 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.159 are good at, what you are not good at, what 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.479 you're comfortable with, what you're not comfortable with, and I 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.760 just don't see a lot of players going to the 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.800 golf course and kind of trying to ride the things 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 that they're comfortable with and they're good at. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:48.000 Right. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.320 We practice golf on the driving range, right, We do 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.960 not practice golf on the golf course. When we're on 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.000 the golf course, we are playing golf. We are playing 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.600 the game of golf. The game of golf is one 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.680 of the great things that everybody loves about golf. One 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.119 of the things that is nostalgic about golf. One of 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.639 the things that is iconic about golf is that it 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.720 has rules, right, and you call penalties on yourself, and 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.680 if you hit one out of bounds, you've got to 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.840 go back to the tee. Right, All of the rules 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.000 that govern penalty shots, all the rules about where you 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.600 have to play from the tee markers. I mean, if 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.240 you're three inches a foot in front of the tea markers, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.399 someone in your group is going to tell your tea 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:32.520 and off in front of the tea markers. Right, So 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.360 everybody knows what the rules are. But there is an 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.480 infinite amount of ways to play each hole that you play. Right, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.600 first hole, you could top a driver have to bust 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.720 a three wood and then with an iron. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:47.119 Hol it out. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.119 That is the same score. So you could top a 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.520 driver or three wood, then have to hit another shot 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.240 to get somewhere close and then chip in that three 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.320 looks the exact same as if Rory McElroy hammers a 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.680 drive down there three sixty, hits a wedge to two 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.359 feet and taps it in right. It is the same thing. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.040 It is the same score. Now how you got to 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.640 that score is very different. But that is a conversation 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.080 for after you're done playing golf, right, not while you're 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.240 playing golf right. You do that afterwards. You evaluate. You 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.080 look at your practice, You look at the things that 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.400 you're good at, look at the things you're not good at. 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.160 If you're not a good driver of the golf ball, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.359 work on hitting hybrids off tees, and then say, listen, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.919 I don't drive it that great, so I'm just going 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.400 to get the ball in play with my three wood. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.320 Maybe get a driving iron. So let's say you hit 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.960 your seven iron one hundred and fifty yards right, and 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.040 you could tee off with that. So if you hit 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.119 it twice off the tee and then again and you 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.800 hit it your distance right, let's just some round numbers. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.720 That's three hundred yards as opposed to trying to hit 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.960 a three hundred yard drive. So whatever distance. Let's say 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.280 you hit your seven iron one hundred and thirty five yards, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.560 you hit two of those right, hit one off the te, 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.439 get it and play, then hit another one, so that 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.000 would equal up to around two hundred and seventy yards. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.040 So you got a four hundred yard Part four, you 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.440 get hit seven iron off the te, seven iron again, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.480 and if you hit it, whatever. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:20.880 That distance is, think about that. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.560 Think about how far you hit your five iron, Think 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.080 about how far you hit your six iron. Think about 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.520 how far you hit all of kind of five iron 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.240 down right, and then look at the course that you're 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.920 going to play, Look at the par fours that you're 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.760 going to play, Look at the par five's that you're 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.240